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A Time of Celebration

Jagged Fel

Chapter Seven of Seven

Jagged Fel quietly slipped out of bed and walked to another room. He and Jaina were finally married but he couldn't quiet shake the cloud of doubt that hung over him. He was glad to finally be married but something about his father's comments after the ceremony were bothering him. He could still remember his father's words that bothered him so much. "Remember your duty to the empire and make sure you kids know theirs." He had asked his father what he meant and his father had responded. "No matter what your first loyalty is to the House of Fel and the Empire of the hand make sure your kids know that too."

It was such a change from even just a few months earlier where his father was pushing him to ask Jaina to marry him so as to legitimize their relationship. He was beginning to suspect his father had pushed so hard for their union for reasons other than his son's happiness. It truthfully wouldn't have surprised him as his father was all about the mission and would do whatever it took to succeed. However, usually he'd be included in his father's council and informed of what the goal was. He didn't like not knowing and he really wasn't fond of the implication that his father didn't trust him enough to go through with whatever the final plan was.

He also had to admit he was worried about what would happen if his father's plans ever put the empire of the hand against the Galactic Alliance. He had known his father believed that an empire was the only sensible form of government and while it was beneficial for the time being for the Empire of the hand to remain part of the Alliance it wasn't guaranteed to be that way forever. He knew Jaina would side with the Galactic Alliance because of family ties and the fact that the Jedi order was as a rule loyal to democracy despite its obvious flaws. It was one of the reasons he'd put off asking Jaina to marry him for so long after the war. He had hoped to bring her around to his point of view but she remained stubbornly pro-alliance.

There was also the problem of their future children. They would almost certainly be force sensitive and that meant they'd be brought up amongst the Jedi and not in the carefully controlled structure of the Empire of the hand's educational frame work. "Having second thoughts?" He turned to see his wife standing there in the door way.

"Not at all." He said simply and got up to give her a kiss. He couldn't tell if she believed him or not. "I was just thinking about the future." She didn't respond and he could tell she wanted more of an explanation. "I was wondering what challenges we are going to face raising force sensitive children."

Jaina seemed relieved by his admission. "I don't think we need to be worrying about kids yet Jag." He relaxed slightly. "And as far as I know Mom and Dad didn't have too much trouble with the three of us so it can't be that hard to raise force sensitive kids; plus there'll be other Jedi around to help out when it's time to train them." Jag didn't like the sound of that but he'd deal with that in the future.

"That's not the only thing bothering you though is it?" She asked again. He felt slightly unnerved. "I can tell there's more to it than that Jag what's really bothering you?" He watched her frown as he struggled to find something to say.

"It's only an issue with my family." He said after a pause. "It's not important I don't want to worry you about it." He could tell his answer didn't satisfy her. It seemed strange that just a few hours ago they had been so happy and now she was asking him questions he couldn't answer.

He was afraid she was going to ask him more but instead she simply said. "All right we can talk about it later I'm going back to bed."As she turned to go, she asked him simply. "Are you coming?"

"Just a few more minutes and don't worry Jaina things are only going to get better for us now." He said even though he wasn't truly convinced. She smiled apparently she believed it and he could tell she was in a much better mood as she left.

He set back down and focused on putting his worries out of his mind. He'd deal with the issues as they came up there was no point in worrying about it. He'd deal with whatever difficulties came up as he'd been trained. There was still time to decide how to bring Jaina around to the idea of their kids growing up in the proper environment. After all they weren't planning on having children for at least a couple of years.

The End...

There that ends A time of Celebration. I have two more Written in Parts and several one shots planned for this Star Wars AU. They probably won't show up here in my account for a while though I'm kind of burned out on Star Wars for a bit after finishing this one up so quickly.